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Alan

Cruelty and barbarism must never be accepted as necessary to any struggle.

About Me


This is my favourite quotation. It has got me through many trials and reversals. It is from Act 2 of Waiting For Godot by Samuel Becket, the whole of life summed up in a few words:
VLADIMIR: What do you do when you fall far from help?
POZZO: We wait till we can get up. Then we go on.
Born To Be Mild
I Am The Mild One I am the King of Bongo, baby. I'm the King of Bongo Bong.

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Q U O T E O F T H E W E E K

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

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Yes, you guessed it. I do shave my chest.
Now, get a load of this:
this is love

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Here's a short PJ Harvey playlist for y'all:
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Some Record Album Covers
Some favourite films:
my frazy music , movies and books !
my frazy music , movies and books !
Some favourite books:
my frazy music , movies and books !
The White Stripes - Jolene
The Knack
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The Knack - My Sharona
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My Interests


Featured Artiste (on player above) at the moment is Patti Plinko.

The other photo on the right is Rox. I can't bear to remove it.


Please also listen to my other artiste friends on their own pages.


Les Beaux Arts:
Robert Campin 1378- 1444 - A Man and A Woman
The National Gallery, London
Two of my favourite pictures from the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh:

The Saviour of the World by El Greco
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by J.S. Sargent

An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
Diego Velazquez
National Gallery of Scotland

la musique; la natation; mon ordinateur; le cinema; le theatre; l'opera; trainer aux pubs; draguer dans les rues; mon website; mon MySpace.
Now My Photos.


I'd like to meet:


I get my Cool Myspace Layouts from SnazzySpace.com .
Anyone who is open-minded and relaxing to be with.

Anyone who has a serious opinion on all the injustices in the world.


All my MySpace chums and Tracey Emin


And demure young ladies.



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Leningrad Cowboys play Sweet Home Alabama
Leningrad Cowboys

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M Vs Monterey Marienbad
Un video de Yonathan Levy

Music:

Some favourite music artistes:
Alyssa, Alessandra Celletti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, The White Stripes, The Hives, The Ramones, Pink, The Leningrad Cowboys, Randy Newman, Rox, Diana Krall, Schubert, Tom Waits, Nouvelle Vague, PJ Harvey, Janis Joplin, Jane Birkin, Georges Brassens, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, Mariza, Neil Young, Electric Six, Joni Mitchell, Garbage, The Pogues, Franco Zapparelli, Electric Six, tout ce qui est Tango et Flamenco etc. Mais, a quoi je pense......pas de Hendrix, pas de Dylan. Eux aussi, alors.
Et maintenant, voici PJ Harvey pour vous epater:
PJ Harvey - Dress (live)

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Here's my New Playlist at 15th October 2007.
Play it from your task bar or in a different tab while you do something else. Enjoy!!
For those of you addicted to the old playlist, the URL is http://www.seeqpod.com/music/?plid=fa1e7fe1b0 Click on it if you must or copy and paste it into your browser.

Scroll down to view tracks. Double clicking will allow you to start at any track.

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Movies:


Some Favourite Films
Cabaret
The Usual Suspects
The Grifters
A knight's Tale
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang
The English Patient
Dr.Strangelove
The Third Man
Ed Wood
Bringing Up Baby
The Philadephia Story
Anything by Eric Rohmer
Les Quatre Cent Coups
L'Amour en Fuite
Love Story (only joking)
Withnail and I
Fitzcarraldo
Amadeus
Ghostworld
Trainspotting
Casablanca
A Night in Casablanca et tout ce qui est The Marx Brothers
Lawrence of Arabia
L.A. Confidential
Close My Eyes
The Maltese Falcon
Jackie Brown
Being John Malkovich
The Big Sleep
Full Metal Jacket
Paths of Glory
Un Amour de Swann
Gosford Park
Gorky Park
Heaven's Gate
The Deer Hunter
Great Balls of Fire...... Those are some of my favourites but I'll watch any old shite really as long as it doesn't make squirm. I just like films.
I also wanted to mention Fight Club but the first rule of Fight Club......

Women in Film - by Eggman913
History of Woman in Film
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From "Bande a Part" by Jean Luc Godard (1964)- The Madison

Television:

Mostly films and documentaries, South Park, Byker Grove, Green Wing and Curb Your Enthusiasm. The rest is silence........

Books:

Yeah Yeah Yeah by Roddy Lumsden/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams/War and Peace and Anna Karenina by L Tolstoy/A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust/The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden/Les Freres Karamazov by F. Doestoyevsky/Germinal by E. Zola/More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow/Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence/Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley/The Incredible Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera/A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell/Roads to Freedom by J-P Sartre/Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain/Zazie dans le Metro by Raymond Queneau/The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureshi/Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh/Memoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangee by Simone de Beauvoir/Peanuts by Charles Shultz

Heroes:

[1]Nelson Mandela
[2]Randy Newman
[3]Mr. Hanky from South Park.



My score on The Fundamental Weirdness Test :

Hurricane
(You scored 60% mad, 80% wild, and 5% wannabe!)

You are clever. And you are crazy. You have awesome ideas, a powerful wit, and no inhibitions to stop you. You will not be soon forgotten. You're a HURRICANE! You have tremendous power, and you do exactly what you want, whenever you want. Some people worship you, others hate you. But one thing is for certain: wherever you go, nothing will ever be the same again.

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Mon score sur
The Beatles Lyrics Test :

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My Blog

Aberlard and Héloise - A love story for all time

Recently someone asked me about the story of Abelard and Héloise. This is the best I could do off the top of my head. I hope it will awaken the interest of any readers to find out more. Round a...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

Salamis - A New Poem.

While I struggle to find the time to finish my series of London blogs, here is something I was inspired to write after reading about the Battle of Salamis where, in around 470 BC, a heavily outnumbere...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:51:00 PST

London Slog Chapter 3 - An Evening at the Theatre

Later that Wednesday afternoon as I was making the short walk from Russell Square Tube Station to Tavistock Place, I noticed a little café on Marchmont Street advertising freshly squeezed orange juic...
Posted by Alan on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:56:00 PST

London Slog Chapter 2 - Essential Tips for Travellers.

I awoke on the Wednesday morning not especially late but alone in the dorm with only minimal signs of co-habitation: rumpled bed clothes, the odd pair of flip-flops lying on the floor and a mirror and...
Posted by Alan on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:56:00 PST

London Slog Chapter 1

London in summer is a sweat pit. You can hardly walk to the end of the street, any street, without your clothes sticking to your back. And if you venture down into the labyrinth of the Tube, you...
Posted by Alan on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:34:00 PST

Hot Sexy Poems and Some Hot Sexy Poets

The other day I received a friends request from Poet Casting which is a project  aimed at working with poets and podcasting their work so bringing it to a wider audience. You can see their MySpac...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:24:00 PST

Make your Free Charity donations here.

I hope all visitors to my page are taking the opportunity to click the One Click free charity donation button. How it works is that every click on the One Click page contributes to corporate donations...
Posted by Alan on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:43:00 PST

Paris Hilton and some music!!

So Paris Hilton is back in jail. Well, so......., like, whatever............ Click here for appropriate music to accompany this profound comment on world affairs. And, like, does anyone think she will...
Posted by Alan on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:16:00 PST

Virginia Tech massacre. Follow up comment.

Thanks to those who left comments on my blog about the Virginia Tech massacre. There was only one dissenting comment which you can see on this blog page. To Robyn, who took the contrary view to m...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 02 May 2007 08:58:00 PST

The Virginia Tech massacre, Virginia USA

It was with shock combined with resignation rather than surprise that I heard on the TV news at lunchtime yesterday of the latest gun tragedy in the US, apparently the worst mass shooting in US histo...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST